Middle East Forum

September 18, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran Is Using Foreign Islamic Centers to Spread Terror and Hatred; the World Must Close Them

Last month, Germany announced that it would deport Mohammed Mofatteh, the former director of Hamburg’s Shi’a Islamic Center, which local authorities had ordered shut down five weeks earlier for propagating extremism, and for its financial links to Hezbollah. ...

January 30, 2022 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Terrorists Benefit from Qatar’s Goodwill and Charity

On Monday, President Joe Biden will have a busy meeting at the White House with Qatari ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad. Qatar hosts one of the biggest U.S military bases in the Gulf region and has been instrumental...

July 23, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal, Jonathan Spyer

US investigates Qatar over claims that it finances Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps

The State Department has opened an inquiry into an Israeli government report that Qatar’s monarchy funded Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. “We...

October 28, 2020 | Jonathan Spyer, Benjamin Weinthal

America Should Not Sell F-35 Fighter Planes to the Qatari Regime

Israeli energy minister Yuval Steinitz, speaking to the Ynet website on Sunday, expressed concern that despite Jerusalem’s objections, Qatar will eventually acquire state-of-the-art Lockheed Martin...

August 5, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal, Jonathan Spyer

Qatar’s alleged finance of Hezbollah terrorist movement puts US troops at risk, dossier claims

There are nearly 10,000 U.S. troops stationed in the Middle Eastern country

August 31, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Follow the Money: The Israel-Boycott Movement and Its Accomplices

Co-authored by Asaf Romirowsky. U.S. banking giant Comerica’s closure of an account earlier this year held by an organization that wages legal and economic warfare against...

August 8, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

How US states can promote Israeli-Palestinian peace

Co-written by Asaf Romirowsky The growing number of laws and resolutions approved by US states, designed to block anti-Israel boycotts, divestment and sanctions efforts have sen...

March 18, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Obama and the daylight between US and Israel

This week’s AIPAC conference will place the fractured Israel-US relationship front and center in the American public’s focus. Of all the promises that the Obama White House h...

January 29, 2016 | Oren Kessler

Al-Jazeera Files $150M Claim Against Egypt for Harassment of Journalists

The Al-Jazeera news network has filed a $150M arbitration claim against the government of Egypt, making good on a three-year-old threat to seek redress for what it describes as the persecution of...

October 21, 2014 |

FDD Welcomes Oren Kessler as New Deputy Director of Research

Washington, D.C. - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies welcomed Oren Kessler this week as its newest Deputy Di...

March 12, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Not Quiet on the Northern Front

Co-authored by Jonathan Spyer The disintegration of the Syrian state into warring enclaves is bringing with it new challenges and threats for Israel. Alarm bells have now been s...

December 9, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Why Is the Obama Administration Courting Hezbollah?

Co-authored by Jonathan Spyer Evidence has recently emerged suggesting that the U.S. has opened a line of direct communication with the Lebanese Shia Islamist organiza...

March 11, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Envoys Work to End UN’s Palestinian Refugee Status

At a small conference at the Harvard Club in Manhattan on Thursday, a host of dignitaries and experts, including Israel’s envoy to the UN Ron Prosor, addressed the UN’s classification...

January 2, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: What Do Mideast Christians Face in ’13?

Growing persecution of Middle Eastern Christians and holy sites by radical Islamists in the Middle East and Africa in 2012 resulted in large numbers of murders, bombings, imprisonments, church cl...

May 30, 2012 | Clifford D. May |

Whose Middle East Policy Is It, Anyway?

The State Department contradicts Obama and previous presidents on the “right of return.”

March 21, 2012 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

“Destroy All the Churches”

Is it not news when Saudi Arabia’s leading religious authority meets with a terrorist group and says that?

March 14, 2012 | National Post |

Building Palestinian Prosperity

By Alexander Joffe And Asaf Romirowsky The Palestinian cause has never been more marginalized than it is today. That was the message conveyed by Palestinian Prime Minister...

November 2, 2011 |

FDD Welcomes Lee Smith and James Kirchick as Fellows

Washington, D.C. - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies proudly welcomes two new scholars to its ranks. Lee Smith, of the Weekly Standard, and...

November 2, 2011 |

FDD Welcomes Lee Smith and James Kirchick as Fellows

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August 2, 2011 | |

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ‘Moderate’

Ayatollah Khamenei's political spectacle continues to fool Western observers.